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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-06
A Missouri Court Scene.

Mr.. Charles P. johnson has returned
from Mount Vernon, Lawrence County,
No., where he secured verdict for
client that he regards as one of the great
est of his triumphs. In February, 1886,
this client, Michael Homer, was tried,
convicted of numbering Davis Boswell
and sentenced to Imprisonment for ninety
nine years. On Saturday, at the end OF
a second trial which had occupied two
weeks, he was found guilty Of man
slaughter in the fourth degree and fined
5000. Said Governor Johnson: 81 never
saw such a scene in courtroom in my
life as followed the rendition/of the YER.
dict Saturday. When it was read Horner
was too much agitated to move for mo-
mens, then he jumped at least three feet
high, swung his hands in the air, and as
he came down to the floor yelled with all
his might. Then he gave another leap
and another yell, and another. Men in
the crowded room answered his yell with
whoops as loud. Horner's young wife
fairly threw her baby into the first pair OF
arms that offered, sprang upon the jurors,
hugged every one of them and kissed
three rec or four. Then she and her husband
sprang upon the judge and shook his
hands like pump-handles: The sheriff
lost all control of the crowd, and had to
let them whoop. Both sides, friends
and enemies, congratulated Horner, all
feeling that he must be right, as he had
won finally. He had been in jail since
july, 1885, in spite of the efforts of his
friends to secure his release on bail. He
Immediately paid the fine and went home
with his wifc.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
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A Bomb Test.

The inventor of new kind of bomb,
for which patent is pending, came to
see the Commissioner of Patents at
Washington. He brought with him a
specimen bomb, which was enclosed in a
pasteboard case, and he showed it to the
Commissioners Private Secretary, Dit.
Will Montgomery. The inventor said
that it would 60 off as soon as it touched
water, and this specimen would make a
noise when exploded like fire cracker.
The Private Secretary had some curios.
ity to see the bomb tested, and sent out
and procured a pail of water. When
the bomb was thrown into the water tho
effect was startling. The water was
forced up with violence to the ceiling,
and fell in shower pretty we'll all over
the room; while the noise of the explo-
sion sounded like the report of cannon.
As soon as the few spectators could wipe
the water cut of their eyes, they pro.
nounced the test success.
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Not a Poor Mans Paradise.

California is not poor mans country.
and nowhere is this more evident, says j.
P. Burke in the St. Louis Globe Democrat,
than in the rural and mountain districts.
True, it is cheaper to live there than in
the East, but it is harder to make money.
Capital is centralized, and labor is so fear
fully cheap that poor man has no chance
to make expenses. The men who are
wealthy have enormous amounts, and
most of them do not know how to spend
it. was recently up in Shasta County,
and would hear of local magnates with
very common names, and be told: "Oh,
Tubbs, he's worth $4,000, 900, but he
never leaves the county. All he does is
to work in his garden. He was once
laborer, and is close, but his sons spend
the money" If I heard such expressions
once I heard them dozen times. The
pioneers are nearly all wealthy. Trans
portation is bad through the northern
part of the State on account of the almost
impassable condition of the roads. If
you want to travel certain distance you
are generally obliged to hire team, and
that amounts to almost the same as buy
ing it. I had to hire team to 60 up into
the country, and kept it thirty days. The
owner charged me $500. was forced to
pay it, for justice is very sudden in the
mountains and I'd have been clapped in
Jail in iiffy had I called for COM
promise. This was at Calistoga. Re-
turning thence to San Francisco by rail
l discovered that in the State or local
travel the railroads have three classes OF
coaches, with dress as distinction. I
was rather roughly clad after my noun
tain trip, and approaching the ticket,
sellers window laid down $40 gold
piece. "First, second or third class" I
was asked, and I replied that | usually
travelled first class. He surveyed me and
then remarked that I'd have to go second
class or not at all. 1t did me no good to
object, either. I found first class to
mean elegant coaches where well-dressed
people only were allowed, second class
for men of ordinary or rough dress, and
third class for Cinnamon and negroes.
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Desperate Fight With a Deer.

The other day as Sam Lusk and anoth-
cr man were driving the Nevada City and
Downieville Stage Company's train of
pack horses over the trail between Camp
tonville and Downieville, a big buck
came dashing toward them. The snow
was so high on both sides of the track
that it could noe turn aside and thus pass,
and it dared not go back because some
men were coming just behind it from the
opposite direction. Lusk's companion
grabbed it by horn as it came toward
him full tilt. The horn broke off and the
animal struck him a terrific blow with
one of its hoofs, cutting the flesh on his
right hand to the bone. He grabbed it
by the remaining horn before it could
back off for another charge. Then en-
sued a desperate struggle which Lusk
ended with jackknife, cutting the deer's
throat.-Neooda City (Cal) Transcript.
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A PSALM OF LIFE.

Through the wild Babel of our feverd time
the song Of Homer cometh, grave and stern,
With tidings from the worlds fresh. healthy
prime
Tdings which our worn, wearied age con-
Germ.
Unchanged, through all the long unnumber'd
years,
The voice of Homer sings the song divine,
Which tells of godlike tolls, of heroes tears,
And of the punishment of Priam's line.
The battle in the plain is raging yet,
The watchfres blaze, the beak'd ships line the
shore;
For Us the foe in grim array is set
Ahi but do we fight as they fought OF yoref
For we, too, like the heroes long ago,
Must wage slow wars and sail the bitter sea-
Fierce is the conflict, loud the trumpats blow,
And the waves roar and rage increasingly.
Still must we wander DER the stormy main;
Twixt rocks and whirlpools death passage
make;
Still must the Sirens sing to us in vain;
Still from the tolls of Circe must we break.
Turn, then, to Homer's Psalm of Life, and
How they endured whose pilgrimage is done;
And hear the message they have left for
thee
Only by patience is the victory Won
Macmillan.
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Novelties in Jewelry.

Little coil or knot earrings, chased or
plain, are still favorites.
A row of small turquoise is sometimes
set along the centres of queen chains.
The. chased sleeve button, with round,
plain Roman centre, set with diamond
star, is one of the prevailing styles.
In the long catalogue of flower brooches
the diamond-set carnation pink, IN
chased Roman finish, occupies proni-
nent place.
A novel brooch is perferg imitation Of
an oyster she'll in plain Roman finish, and
bearing in its centre a small bunch OF
bright enameled flowers.
A little bouquet of apple-blossoms, vio-
lets or other flowers, in chased Roman tin-
ish and having the pistils tipped with
diamonds, makes an exquisite pin.
In silver-platcd ware the oxidized old
silver style, which is extremely pleasing
in effect and which will not tarnish, seems
likely to prevail during the coming sea-
son.
Handsome collarettes of braided wire
in open scroll work arc among the latest
novelties that have struck the bellies ff.n-
cy. Earrings in the same style, with dia-
mond centres and resembling flowers IN
general contour, are also made.
One of the prettiest onyx earrings
made to-day consists of faceted ball,
over the exposed side of which three mar
row leaves of gold set with pearls are ap-
piled, and which appear to droop, while
the fourth leaf Of the figure extends up
ward to form the face of the top of the
earring.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
CLEANING a Black Dress,

A black dress, whose owner had worn
it on fishing excursion in row boat,
and was caught in severe thunder
shower while out on the water, hung
month after month an eyesore, and, as
she supposed, past cleaning without
ripping. As the time rolled around that
she might need it again for another ex-
cursion, she tried an experiment, and put
the shirt and overskirt, which were in
one binding, into large tubful of clear
cold water. The basque did not need it.
After soaking awhile 1t was brushed
thoroughly, especially the platings, with
cast-off weavers' brushes, and hung out on
picket fence by the binding, dripping,
not having been wrung or the water
even squeezed out. The folds and plaits
were brushed in place as well as possible
as it hung, and it being of stiff goods,
and the day clear and warm, it was soon
dry and ready to bring in. 1t needed no
ironing except in few wrinkled spots,
which she damped and pressed, and she
felt so well satisfied with it that it has
been worn afternoons, sweet and clean.
Cultiuator.
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Useful Hints.


The application of dry buckwheat flour
will sometimes remove grease from deli
cate fabrics. ~,. -
Any letter not heavier than silver doll
lar, which weighs a little less than an
ounce, can 60 for q single two-cent.
stamp. *
For cleaning brasses belonging to ma.
hogany furniture use either powdered
whiting or scraped rottenstone, mixed
with sweet oil, and rub on with q chamois
skin.
An authority says if eggs are kept for
future use they should be turned over
twice week. Also that eggs for hatch
ing will keep two or three weeks if turned
half over each day. Eggs should always
be kept in cool place, but where they
will not freeze.
Faded hangings may be restored by
beating the dust from them and brushing,
then apply strong lather of CASTLE soap
BY means of hard brush; wash the lather
off with clean water and afterward with
alum water. When dry the colors will
generally be found to be restored. ~
Children's stocking knees can be mend
ed nicely by picking up row of stitches
below the hole and knitting strip wide
enough and long enough to cover the hole
good. Then whip down the edges to the
stocking with yarn the same color as you
knit the strip with. If you have yarn Like
the stockings it can hardly be seen. New
heels and toes can also be knit by cutting
off the old ones and picking up the
stitches. Knit the heel and sew in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-06
A Museum of Crime.

The Museum of Crime, opposite
the private Office of Inspector Byrnes,
is a shuddering horror; not so
much from what is seen as from
what is suggested. Speaking likenesses
of shop-lifters, pick-pockets, burglars,
and eminent "crooks'' glare from the
walls upon visitors. Slcdgc-hammers
whose heads are filled with lead, drags,
drills, sectional jimmies, masks, powder
TASKS, ETC., that were used in the Man
haitian Bank robbery of October 81, 1878,
challenge inspection in their glass cases.
The rascals made away with So, 749, 400
n bonds and securities, and about $15,-
900 in money, on that occasion; but,
thanks to our unequaled detective sys@
tenn, did not retain all their booty. Here
are samples of the mechanical skill of
Gustave Kindt, alias "French Gus" q
professional burglar and maker of bur
glars tools, which he let out to impecuni-
Gus thieves on definite percentages
of their robberies. The assortment
of burglarious kits, tools, keys,
wax impressions, etc., is complete.
The genius of Kindt and Klein, so
wofully perverted, ought to have made
their fortunes in legitimate fields of ope-
ration. Nat Whites bogus gold brick;
Mike Shanahan's eighteen-chambered
pistol; counterfeit Reading Railroad
scrip; the photographic stone On which
ten or twenty thousand spurious tickets
of the elevated railroad were printed;
stones for printing fractional currency;
bogus railroad bonds used by confidence
operators; the black caps and ropes OF
murderers; the pistols wherewith various
persons were slain; the lock curiosities of
Langdon W. Moore, who knew how to
open combination locks through study
ing their emitted sounds; the box in
which the same thief, known as "Charley
Adams" put $4,000 in Government
bonds, stolen from the Concord Bank,
Massachusetts, in February, 1868, and
which he first buried four feet below the
surface of the Delaware River, and then
dug up and surrendered when under ar
rest; the pipes, peanut oil, lamps, liquid
raw opium, and pills used for smoking in
opium joints-are all here.-Harper's
lfagazine.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Sewing Womens' Day in New York.

Sewing Womens' Day in New York.
The young women of the middle classes
who used to bo able to maintain them
selves by taking home sewing for the
manufacturing firms find themselves un-
able to earn their car fares since the cuts
in the prices of the few past years; while
the poor women in the tenenlents who
eked out q scanty living by such work are
simply unable to exist. Three years ago
sH5 per dozen was paid for cloaks, but
this price has been successfully reduced
to $12, 50, Sc, $5, 81, and So, until it is
now 81 so per dozen. Dress suits, fan
mel and sacque, are 81 81 per dozen !;
fancy wrappers are 81 per dozen; plain,
30 cents. Plain chemises, 80 cents;
aprons being cents each; wide-hemmed
handkerchicfs are cents per dozen; mar
row-bordercd handkerchiefs, 2 cents per
dozen; white sacques tucked are 50 per
dozen; skirt and sacque, 81 and 81 per
dozen; jerseys being 30 cents per dozen !;
or s and 9 cents each. The women have
to supply the thread, the silk costing so
cents per spool. The work has to be de-
livered on alternate days, and often the
item of car fares to those living in the
suburbs equals the receipts at these rates
The manufacturers claim to be unable to
pay any better, because their rates to the
retail dealers have been reduced, and the
latter assert that the competition has
brought the selling prices to cost.-Ne'o
York Times,
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COntagion in Barrels.

Health Commissioner De Wolf recently
addressed communication to the sani-
tary committees of the Legislature on a
highly important subject. DR.. De Wolf
states that 1t is the practice of families
purchasing flour, lard, butter, etc., in
Quantities to sell their -four barrels, but
ter firkins, and lard tierces to persons
who regularly call for them. These bar,
rel, ETC., are again sold to dealers. and
they are repacked with similar articles.
In very many cases, the Doctor says,
these receptacles are kept in mouldy
places, and frequently are purchased
from families in whose houses infectious
diseases have existed, and he considers
the practice of retlling these receptacles
as highly injurious to public health. A
bill is now pending before the Legislature
preventing the sale o. these second hand
barrels, and the Health Commissioner will
urge its passage and strict enforcement.
Chicago Journal.
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RecipeS.

Mock SAUsAGE.-Soak dry bread In
water. Take as much cold meat, chopped
fine, as you have bread. Mix and sea-
son with salt, pepper and sage. Make
into small cakes and fry in hot lard.
CIRCLE CAKE.-One egg, one cupful
sugar, one-third cupful butter, one-haf
cupful sweet milk, two and one-haf cup
fuls -four, two heaping teaspoonfuls bak-
ing powder, a pinch of salt; flavor to
taste.
HoM1N7 MUFF1Ns.-One cupful of cold
hominy, one beaten egg, three tablespoon
fuls of melted butter, two-thirds OF cup
of milk; stir into this mixture two cups
of flour in which has been sifted two tea
spoons of baking powder. Bake in mu film
rings in quick oven. -.
PLAIN PUDD1Ne.-One egg, half cup
of sugar, butter half size of egg, half cup
of currants, half cup of milk or water,
heaping teaspoonful of baking powder
mixed with -four enough to make stiff
batter; steam without removing cover for
an hour. Can be eaten with any good
sauce. =
MATELoTE OF EGes.-Pour into stew
pan quart of water, the juice Of a lemon,
add bunch of mixed herbs, an onion, q
Glove of garlic, salt, pepper and spice;
let them boil five minutes; take out the,
seasoning with skinner; poach in the
liquor some eggs one after another; take
them out singly and drain them. Dress
them in dish upon some toasted bread
Let the water boil little, and then add
while stirring it piece of fresh butter
the size of two eggs rolled in spoonful
of flour; strain this sauce over the eggs
and serve.
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correspondent gives the following inter-
esting chapter of White House news:
'sThere is one room in the White House
on the upper floor in the private part OF the
Mansion, to entering which Mrs. Cleve-
land confesses an especial aversion. 1t
is the State bedroom, which is next to
the library on the south side of the build
ing, directly above the Red Parlor. 1t
is one of the most expensively furnished
of any of the bedrooms, and used to be
called The Presidents room, though it
is believed none of the Presidents since
the war have slept in it.
''It has usually been kept as bedroom
of state, and it is asserted by those who
should know that the Prince of Wales
slept there when he visited President
Buchanan. 1t is there that the ladies
asked to receive with Mrs. Cleveland at
formal receptions 60 to remove their
wraps. On one such occasion during the
past winter, when the wife of member
of the Cabinet was being shown into that
room, Mrs. Cleveland, who was with her,
drew back and said: 'Oh, I don't like
this room; never come here when l can
help it, because it has sad associations
for me. It was here that the President
told me goodbye when I was going to
Europe
"This was when Mr.. and Mrs. Folsom
were at the White House in the autumn
of 1885, just before they sailed for Eu-
rope. But the Blue Parlor, where she
was married, and the East Room, where
(as was learned from an admission made
by the President himself at a dinner
party few weeks ago. the question was
asked which brought about the wedding,
can have only happy associations for the
Presidents loving wife. 1t was in a
conversation in which he said: Il often
say to my wife, "Poor girl, you never
had any courting like other girls, W that
the President said: 1T is true that I did
say something to her one night, when we
were talking together in the East Room,
when she was visiting my sister,"
"This is believed to have occurred in
the spring of 1885, when Miss Folsom
made her first visit to the Executive Man
sion. That the love she promised then
had begun much earlier, those who knew
the present lady of the White House
while she was at school firmly believe.
One who was at the same school and in
innate with Miss Folsom's room mate
there, says she recalls hearing the latter
after she left school, when the news of
the nomination of Grover Cleveland to
be President of the Uniced States was
published, say, refectively: Grover
Cleveland: why, that was the name Of
the man Frank Folsom used to talk so
much about, that I used to tell her be-
lieved she was in love with him.
"Others who knew Mrs. Cleveland as
child, say she was always devoted to
her fathers friend, Mr.. Cleveland, who
petted and indulged her almost from her
infancy, and would always defend him
when any one attacked him, and fly into
a childish rage when unkind things were
said of him in her presence. He was and
is her hero"
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Fashion Notes.

Flowers are largely used upon the
spring bonnets.
Striped surahs in all variety of color
ings are to be worn this season.
Buttons in all sorts of costly materials
are now worn on outside garments.
Gilt cord is seen on some very fashion
able costumes this season as a finish.
Colored laces form part of some very
elegant costumes for sumner wear.
The prettiest coiffure for young gir
is the loose queue with q curly or Russian
bang.
White will be less worn this season
than usual and brilliant colors are to take
its place.
Among the novel spring mantles are
some which are composed entirely OF pas
semeteric.
Open meshes, amid otherwise solid de-
signs, are feature of the newest bead pas
sementeries.
Sateen dresses are to be quite elaborate
" made, and velvet is largely used for
their trimming.
Velvet and plush skirts are still stylish
for pctticoats to some elegant and costly
spring costumes.
Trains of various descriptions are gen.
erally worn by married ladies with dinner
or evening toilets.
Beaded vests, cuffs and epaulcts arc in
sets and come in q great variety OF pretty
designs and colors.
Figured dclaines are light and service
able and make very pretty costumes fol-
young girls house wear.
Cashmere beaded trimmings. for trim.
ming dark silks and vclvets, are shown.
They are very rich and not conspicuous.
Strips of pinkcd- out cloth of different
colors, sewn together in two or three
thicknesscs, are worn in the collars and
sleeves of dresses.
Blouse waists will be extensively used
for the summer dresses of girls upward OF
four years old. Kilt-plaited skirts will
invariably accompany them.
Braiding is still seen on English tailor
made Jackets, and gimps of bullion have
been imported, which will give some OF
the spring coats military effect.
Colored beads are in great demand for
trimmings. Pink, amber, white, pearl,
pale blue and green beads are made up
in everything hitherto made of jet.
It is said that in Paris white kid gloves
are again necessary adjunct to a ball
costume. Swedish gloves are still pre-.
ferred, however, for concert, theatre and
evening wear.
Many of the most fashionable spring
mantles are of two materials. By adding
a breadth of new material or setting on
different trimming the task of modern
izing a last seasons mantle becomes an
easy one.
Fine black laces, initiating Chantilly
thread designs, will be used in barbes,
forming large fan bows on the tops OF
bonnets, and wide strings are made of two
rows Of lace sewed together upon the
straight edges.
Among the recent importations ofmil-
linery goods are various kinds OF transpa-
rent net, with bars, stripes, dashes or in
plain meshes. These are used as entire
bonnets, pulled upon wires, or drawn over
| flowers, partially yelling them.